Velvet Portraits by Terrace Martin on iTunes
1. “Velvet Portraits”
2. “Valdez off Crenshaw”
3. “Push”
4. “With You”
5. “Curly Martin”
6. “Never Enough”
7. “Turkey Taco”
8. “Patiently Waiting” (feat. Uncle Chuck & The Emotions)
9. “Tribe Called West”
10. “Oakland”
11. “Bromali
12. “Think of You”
13. “Reverse”
14. “Mortal Man”
Editors’ Notes
Good luck pigeonholing Terrace Martin; on Velvet Portraits, the L.A. producer/saxophonist (who entered the limelight working with Kendrick Lamar) creates a wildly creative collision of jazz, soul, funk, and hip-hop that’s loaded with guests and restless creativity. Case in point? Take “Valdez off Crenshaw”—a wah-wah-infused, organ-driven instrumental based on a Donny Hathaway tune. Martin dresses it up with whistling synth leads and Zappa-esque guitars. Want to go further out? Take “Turkey Taco,” a showpiece of Outkast-inspired freakiness with a rubbery synth-bass, purring backup singers, and an off-kilter acoustic piano. When it’s time to come back, try “Patiently Waiting,” a soulful, sweat-soaked blues throwback featuring a gloriously gutsy vocal from Uncle Chucc or the simmering R&B of “Think of You." Weird, wonderful, and impossible to pin down, this is future-soul music from a musician who elegantly connects the music of Stax to the streets of Compton and beyond.
Special Guests:
Tiffany Gouche
Kamasi Washington
Robert Glasper
The Emotions
Wayne Vaughn
Adam Turchin
Uncle Chucc
Rose Gold
Candy West
Keyon Harrold
Marlon Williams
Thundercat
Ronald Bruner Jr
Tone Trezure
1. “Velvet Portraits”
2. “Valdez off Crenshaw”
3. “Push”
4. “With You”
5. “Curly Martin”
6. “Never Enough”
7. “Turkey Taco”
8. “Patiently Waiting” (feat. Uncle Chuck & The Emotions)
9. “Tribe Called West”
10. “Oakland”
11. “Bromali
12. “Think of You”
13. “Reverse”
14. “Mortal Man”
Editors’ Notes
Good luck pigeonholing Terrace Martin; on Velvet Portraits, the L.A. producer/saxophonist (who entered the limelight working with Kendrick Lamar) creates a wildly creative collision of jazz, soul, funk, and hip-hop that’s loaded with guests and restless creativity. Case in point? Take “Valdez off Crenshaw”—a wah-wah-infused, organ-driven instrumental based on a Donny Hathaway tune. Martin dresses it up with whistling synth leads and Zappa-esque guitars. Want to go further out? Take “Turkey Taco,” a showpiece of Outkast-inspired freakiness with a rubbery synth-bass, purring backup singers, and an off-kilter acoustic piano. When it’s time to come back, try “Patiently Waiting,” a soulful, sweat-soaked blues throwback featuring a gloriously gutsy vocal from Uncle Chucc or the simmering R&B of “Think of You." Weird, wonderful, and impossible to pin down, this is future-soul music from a musician who elegantly connects the music of Stax to the streets of Compton and beyond.
Special Guests:
Tiffany Gouche
Kamasi Washington
Robert Glasper
The Emotions
Wayne Vaughn
Adam Turchin
Uncle Chucc
Rose Gold
Candy West
Keyon Harrold
Marlon Williams
Thundercat
Ronald Bruner Jr
Tone Trezure
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